Author: Paul Doroshenko

The past week marks another step in our ongoing quest to expose the true functioning of the IRP scheme and to protect the integrity of our justice system.
Back in November 2015, Kyla received a package back from the government on a Freedom of Information request containing information that questioned the integrity of BC’s IRP system. Inside the package were pages of confidential material the Government didn’t want us to see (known as the Victoria Papers). The material included a conversation where a lawyer working for the Ministry of Justice appeared to give orders to an IRP adjudicator describing how she...

In September we told you about how we ended up involved in the appeal of the remedy decision for the first version of the IRP scheme. The original challenge to the first version of the IRP scheme (what some call "IRP 1.0") was advanced by a group of lawyers, us included, and handled by a firm we hired to mount the challenge. They succeeded and the law was struck down. The issue next was whether there was a remedy for the people who were punished while the unconstitutional law was still in place.
Many people had grand hopes in class-action lawsuits,...

On September 27, 2016, Paul Doroshenko of Acumen Law Corporation presented to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee with respect to a study the Senate is conducting on delays in Canada’s Criminal Justice system.
Paul went over time in his oral evidence. The entire presentation was provided in written form. We have reproduced Paul’s entire presentation below. Click here to download the PDF.
Delay in Our Justice System Arising from Developments in Impaired Driving Defense
Paul Doroshenko, Lawyer, Acumen Law Corporation
STANDING SENATE COMMITTEE ON LEGAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS
Study on matters pertaining to delays in Canada’s criminal justice system
September 27, 2016
Metropolitan Hotel Vancouver
Introduction
Thank...

Acumen Law Corporation is a Vancouver Criminal Law Firm with its head office in downtown Vancouver, as well as law offices beside the courthouse in Richmond, in downtown Victoria and just off the Fraser Highway in Surrey, British Columbia.

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